[Photo courtesy of Shannon Wagner/Picassa] This abandoned hulk is 23 Caton Place in Kensington. It represents another Blight Me category: the semi-finished abandoned buiding that has gone into foreclosure or on which has simply stopped. There’s a community meeting about this monstrosity tonight from 7PM-9PM at the International Baptist Church at 312 Coney Island Avenue. […]

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We love old pictures of Brooklyn, old being anything pre-1990. We’re guessing many of our readers may have some gems and scanners. If so, and you’d like to share them, send us the JPEGS at thegowanuslounge (at) gmail (dot) com. [Photo courtesy of Betty Blade/flickr] After a snowstorm in March, 1956. The photographer writes: “When […]

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[Photo courtesy of Betty Blade/GL Flickr Pool] The photographer, whose documentation of Brooklyn in the not-so-distant past we love, writes: “These were painted on the subway wall to celebrate the Bicentennial a few years earlier. Photo 1980. Avenue C and McDonald Aves.”

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[Photo courtesy of Betty Blade] The photographer, who posts some utterly priceless photos of Brooklyn just a short generation ago, with which we’ve fallen in love, writes of this shot: “Reflection in store window. location: On Church Avenue (near Dahill Road) facing toward 36th Street – Culver L in the distance. The factory in the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Betty Blade/Flickr] This is McDonald Avenue near Avenue C in Kensington in 1980. The photographer writes: “This is where the F train begins its rise to become an elevated train going out to Coney Island. I have to apoligize for my finger but I remember how nervous I was taking this picture […]

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[Photo courtesy of Betty Blade/GL Flickr Pool] This is 36th Street near corner of Church Avenue in 1980. The photographer writes, “I think this was an old gas station.”

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[Photo courtesy of nautical2k/flickr] Yesterday, the Times decided to check out Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway. Writer Kareem Fahim describes the parkways as: Elegant and sketchy, welcoming and insular, the striated band of roadway, trees and people called Ocean Parkway both reflects Brooklyn and divides it with a thick green line. It was designed about a century […]

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“On Sunday morning, July 27, 2008 between 6:30 – 6:50 am, atleast 12 automobiles had their tires slashed. Location: Cortelyou Road, between Ocean Parkway and East 7th Street and East 7th Street between Cortelyou Road and Avenue C. The Kensington Action Force is appealing to anyone who observed a group of 3 to 4 individuals, […]

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This pimped fire plug comes from Church Avenue in Kensington, complete with hat, glasses and book on Javascript. We believe that it also supplies water to put out fires if necessary. The photo comes from the roving camera of Miss Heather.

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Have you joined our new Gowanus Lounge Photo Pool on flickr yet? We’d love it if you do and if you’ll tag the Brooklyn photos that you want us to see “gowanuslounge.” Thanks!!! [Photo courtesy of lornaglr/flickr] This image comes from the Church Avenue F Station in Kensington. We’ll simply call it “Waiting.”

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We featured Domino, who lives at Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Kensington, back in March. The good people at Sean Casey have made a video of him and he still needs a home, so we’re featuring him again. Here’s his info: Hi, my name is Domino and I`m a 1 and a half year old […]

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We got this email, like, ten minutes ago and immediately knew what we had to do. There’s a new animal rescue storefront in Kensington. The animals are killer cute. It’s located at 155 East Third Street, right at Fort Hamilton Parkway, not far from McDonald Avenue and very close to the Fort Hamilton Parkway F […]

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Kensington, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of Flatbush Gardener/flicker]

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We love the fact that so many Brooklyn neighborhoods are getting holiday gifts guides this year. Here are a dozen suggestions for doing your holiday shopping locally in Kensington. There’s everything from jewelry from a local designer to artisan goods.–Kensington (Brooklyn)

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Kensington residents petitioned Astoria Federal to plant some trees, but the bank has told the neighborhood to drop dead. “AF said don’t want to water them and they don’t have the “resources” to clean the garbage in the tree planters if and when it collects. They just have ‘no interest in that at all.’ Neat.–Kensington […]

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This email was circulated yesterday via the Park Slope Parents group and sent along to us by a reader along with a couple of responses. It is written by a Kensington resident, occupying an apartment on a month-to-month basis, who may be losing her place. She says her landlord would like to evict her from […]

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Forgotten New York takes a long and interesting look at Kensington this week. Webmaster Kevin Walsh, who consistently produces one of the most compelling websites detailing New York neighborhoods, delves into Kensington’s past and present. Here’s a sample tidbit: Some Kensingtonians may wonder why Church Avenue becomes a 6-lane behemoth between East 5th and East […]

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